H55.82 — Deficient smooth pursuit eye movements
H55.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for deficient smooth pursuit eye movements. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
H55.82 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
H55.82 is named in 9 Medicare coverage policies — 9 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56551Billing and Coding: Visual Fields Testing
- A56612Billing and Coding: CT of the Head
- A56619Billing and Coding: Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography
- A56726Billing and Coding: Ophthalmology: Posterior Segment Imaging (Extended Ophthalmoscopy and Fundus Photography)
How H55.82 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to H55.82.
- Deficiency, deficient›eye movements›smooth pursuit
- Irregular, irregularity›eye movements›deficient›smooth
Related codes at this level
Codes that share H55.8. If H55.82 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about H55.82
- Is H55.82 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. H55.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does H55.82 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59), in the block Other disorders of eye and adnexa (H55-H57).